Dr Lindsay Chura

Dr Lindsaly Chura completed her PhD at the ARC in Cambridge investigating the shape of the corpus callosum in teenagers with autism, their unaffacted siblings, and typical controls. She also performed the first human study to test for an association between the shape of the corpus callosum and fetal testosterone. She was funded by a Gates Foundation Doctoral Scholarship and worked as part of the MRC Autism Family Study led by Dr Mike Spencer. She is now Senior Policy Advisor, Science and Innovation at the British Embassy in Washington DC.